Epstein Secrets

and New York's Staten Island, Long Beach, Red Hook Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. So is Galveston, Texas; Harbor Island in Seattle; the Navy Yard in Philadelphia; AT&T Park in San Francisco; much of Savannah, Georgia; and all of Miami Beach. And all of this flooding is just at high tide, twice a day. Every m

the powerful business roundtable ratchets up a costly advertising campaign to cut corporate taxes even more. We can't afford to defend the poor. Oh, Gideon -- fifty years ago your trumpet was a dear, piercing cry for justice, and we've turned a deaf ear. THIS WEEK"s READINGS The simple truth is that i

owded-theater analogy— Schenck v. United States— involved the prosecution of Charles Schenck, who was the general secretary of the Socialist Party in Philadelphia. In 1917 a jury found Schenck guilty of attempting to cause insubordination among soldiers who had been drafted to fight in the First World War. He h

the haydays of the Warren Court. Many dealt with the rights of indigent defendants—an issue that came to the fore in the Supreme Court’s decision in Gideon versus Weinright, decided toward the end of the year of my Bazelon clerkship. That decision ruled that every indigent criminal defendant in a serious

, 373 U.S. 83, 86 (1963) (holding prosecution's withholding of the confession of defendant's confederate violated defendant's due process rights). 7 Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 342 (1963) (extending Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel to indigent state criminal defendants); Powell v. A

fice first became elective in 1847); Allen Steinberg, The Transformation of Criminal Justice: Philadelphia, 1800-1880, at 152-58 (1989) (stating that Philadelphia first elected its district attorney in 1850). Prosecutors as well as judges became elected positions in many states as part of a wave of state consti